Golf Christmas gifts, and the date you actually have to beat.
Nothing here is sitting on a shelf. Every piece is printed after you order it, which is the reason it doesn't look like a garage-forecourt gift, and also the reason December is a scheduling problem rather than a shopping one. So the date comes first on this page and the gifts come second.
The short version. Count back nine working days from the twenty-fifth and order before that. Earlier for framed and canvas.
The arithmetic
Production takes two to four working days and UK delivery two to five after it, so a typical order needs four to nine working days from the moment you press the button. That's the whole calculation, and it's the same in December as in June except that the courier network isn't. Framed and canvas pieces sit at the long end of that range rather than the short one, because they're assembled rather than rolled.
Priority delivery costs £4.99 at checkout and brings the whole thing down to three to six working days. That is a useful margin rather than a rescue, and it cannot beat a courier network that has stopped for the holiday.
Three that suit the season without being novelty
Winter golf is a real thing that real people do, and the paintings that suit December are the ones that admit it's cold. Winter Round is a frosty morning hole in charcoal and pencil, bare trees and a frost-striped fairway under a low pale sun. Autumn Parkland is oaks and beeches in russet and gold along a misty fairway, which is the last good month before the mats come out. Twilight Round is a lone figure up the last under a burning gold-and-violet sky, and in Britain in winter that's about half past three. None of them has a snowman on it.
Or the course itself, if you can get a photo without giving the game away
The course print takes one photograph of a hole or a view and repaints it as a painting in one of five styles. The preview is free and watermarked and you accept the picture on screen before paying, so there's no December gamble on what turns up. Posters from £19.99, framed from £39.99. Getting the photograph is the hard part in secret: ask whoever they play with rather than asking them.
What we don't sell, so you can stop looking
No golf-themed advent calendars, no novelty jumpers, no branded balls in a cracker. Everything here is a picture, on paper, canvas, metal, wood, a mug, a bottle or a pack of cards, and the picture is either an original painting or their own course. If the brief is a stocking filler with a joke on it, we're the wrong shop and it's better to know now.
How it arrives
Made to order in the UK with postage included in the price. Posters travel rolled; framed and canvas pieces arrive ready to hang. Delivery is to UK addresses only, so a golfer living abroad is outside what we can do.
Where this sits
Christmas is the one dated page in the golfer. The undated version is golf presents, and if the recipient is the harder half of the problem, sorted by type of golfer starts there instead.
From the clubhouse
Questions, answered
When is the cut-off for Christmas delivery?
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Work backwards: production is two to four working days and UK delivery two to five after that, so allow nine working days and order before then. Framed and canvas pieces need the longer end of that range.
Is there a faster option?
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Priority delivery at £4.99 brings the whole thing to three to six working days. It's a margin rather than a rescue, and it can't beat a courier network that has stopped for the holiday.
Which prints suit Christmas?
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Winter Round, a frosty morning hole in charcoal; Autumn Parkland, oaks and beeches along a misty fairway; and Twilight Round, a lone figure up the last under a winter sky. None of them is a novelty design.
Do you sell golf stocking fillers?
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Not in the joke sense. The smallest things here are a mug from £16.99 and a pack of cards from £19.99, both carrying an actual painting. There are no branded balls, tees or crackers.
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